LABOUR MP Alison McGovern has accused the Tories of being unfit to lead the Brexit negotiations due to infighting and demanded they make way for Labour, despite her party’s recent issues involving anti-semitism and votes of no confidence.

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The Tories are interested in a fight amongst themselves, not invested in bringing together in a cross-party way, politicians from across the House, to try and get this through the House of Commons

Alison McGovern

“The Tories are interested in a fight amongst themselves, not invested in bringing together in a cross-party way, politicians from across the House, to try and get this through the House of Commons.”

The comments were made despite Labour’s own internal crises, including criticism over anti-semitic remarks and stances by the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and other Labour MPs as well as leadership challenges.

Mrs McGovern did, however, defend Labour and said they had been unified over Brexit since the party conference.

She said: “The Labour party has been through a long process of engaging with our trade union colleagues, Labour party’s been up and down all of the country taking about Brexit for the past year.

Labour MP Alison McGovern criticised the Government during an interview on Newsnight (Image: GETTY)

Alison McGovern did not mention any of the controversies involving the Labour party (Image: GETTY)

“And we just had a conference where the whole of the Labour movement came together and, essentially, gave support to the TUC’s position which is that we all would like a general election, but, if that doesn’t happen, we think a second vote needs to stay on the table.”

Later, she was asked if the Labour party would be able to come up with a better Brexit deal if they were running the talks, she said that they would need more time.

Mrs McGovern said Article 50 would need to be extended so Labour could have enough time to create a deal.

She said: “The Labour party’s approach has always been this is what we’re looking for.”

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Labour says that a Brexit deal needs to pass the Keir Starmer test for it to be approved (Image: GETTY)

Finally, when she was asked if Labour would vote for the plan in order to prevent no ideal, she said that it has to meet “Keir Starmer’s test”.

The “Keir Starmer test” refers to a list of six questions by Labour’s Brexit minister.

The questions ask if the deal will ensure a strong future relationship with the EU, if it delivers the same benefits as being in the single market and customs union, is there fair migration, does it prevent a race to the bottom and protect rights, does it protect national security and does it deliver for all of the UK.

According to Labour, none of the deals put forward by the Government pass this test.